The study of complex societies, especially those with documentary sources, provides an unparalleled opportunity for the archeologist to contribute to an understanding both of the past and of contemporary society. We argue ...

The application of Darwinian evolutionary theory to archaeology has taken two divergent and rather distinct paths over the past two decades. According to one program, often referred to as evolutionary archaeology, cultural ...

In this paper I examine the idea that patriarchal family structure among elites in stratified societies
originates as a form of parental investment favoring male children. Patriliny and restricted inheritance among 15th- ...

Despite the wealth of documentary evidence regarding the development of Andalusian civilization in the Iberian
Peninsula following the first Muslim invasions in a.d. 711, considerable controversy surrounds the issue of ...

It is widely held that human population growth rates began to increase markedly after the Pleistocene/Holocene transition largely as a consequence of the adoption of agriculture and sedentism. A common explanation for this ...

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